Gen. Yang Vu-ting, former Tu-pun of Kiangsu, says the Chinese Less, was responsible for urging Marshal Chang Tso-lin to withdraw the Fengtien troops and to. maintain peace. He urged that the Fengtien army. should be drawn back to cover the Peking-Mukden railway, to save the original forces and to cope with Marshal Feng Yo. hsiang in the event of the latter's attitude becoming hostile, According to the Chinese press, the Hangchow authorities "have received reports to the effect that Chang Chung-chang is preparing to flee tsingtao, out of Yevenge. He considers'that Yang Vu-ting, in urging Marshal Chang Tro-lin withdraw his army, plotted against him because he Te. fused to send troops to Yang's succour when the latter was Tupan of Kiangsu, so he has sent (so says the report) Gen. Cheng Kuo-jui to Mukden to plot against Yang's life. The reasons for the Fengtien Gefeat were, according to these re-Ports:—(1)' the inhabitants Shantung, tired of Chang and his harsh methods of forcing money from them, had organized a volunteer corps which proved menace to his army; (2) an understanding was reached by the All Army with the Fengtien rearguard to mutiny; and (3) the Tsingtao naval squadron' was unseaworthy and the men were restive because they had received no pay for mai
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